Data story: India logs 7,240 new cases, over 41,000 added in last 7 days

India reported an increase of 3,641 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 32,498. On June 8, it added 7,240 cases to take its total caseload to 43,197,522. And, with 8 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 524,723, or 1.21 per cent of total confirmed infections.

 

With 1,543,748 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on June 8, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 1,945,981,691. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 42,640,301 — or 98.71 per cent of total caseload — with 3,591 new cured cases being reported on June 9.

 

• India has added 41,773 cases in the past 7 days.
• India has so far administered 1,945,981,691 vaccine doses.
• The count of active cases across India on June 9 saw an increase of 3,641, compared with 1,881 on June 8.
• With 3,591 new daily recoveries, India’s recovery rate stands at 98.71%, while fatality rate remained unchanged at 1.21%
• India’s new daily closed cases stand at 3,599 — 8 deaths and 3,591 recoveries.
• India on June 8 conducted 340,615 coronavirus tests to take the total count of tests conducted so far in the country to 853,863,238.
• The five most affected states by total cases are Maharashtra (7896114), Kerala (6566787), Karnataka (3953937), Tamil Nadu (3456317), and Andhra Pradesh (2320008).
• The five states with most active cases are Kerala (9857), Maharashtra (8432), Karnataka (2478), Delhi (1534), and Tamil Nadu (927).
• The five states with highest fatalities are Maharashtra (147866), Kerala (69801), Karnataka (40108), Tamil Nadu (38025), and Delhi (26213).